As an Australian, this is nothing. Earlier post. No where near as a dry as Australia....... Meanwhile England sent citizens over to Australia. A lot less water, and a lot worse in terms of droughts and dry, barren wasteland. Hardly anything in comparison to our summers lol. Quite funny really, watching at first france, and now the UK suffer. Learn to deal with the elements idiots.
Welcome to the new world now climate change has completely settled in. This will be World war 3 we expected but not between nations but humanity against failing to FIX our mistakes and correct the damage we have done to earth.
Yeah, it's getting almost as hot, too. My pets are Australian native and they hate how hot it is. I have to take them outside for walks now to cool them down, it's not optional. My monitor lizard that's from the arid outback can't stand it and he's flailing around trying to dig his way out of the enclosure vents after I've already turned off the heating lights and mats. It's hell watching them and being helpless because I'm doing everything I can for them already. My flat traps heat and releases it later in the day so by 8PM we're all suffering. One of my animals even died last year from the heat and it didn't get this hot. Fingers crossed my frog, scorpion, geckos and pythons make it through this year. Even the bearded dragons are struggling. And then there's next year if things keep getting gradually worse like they have been for the past four years. Might just have to keep everything in my storage cupboard outside.
When Welsh Water & Yorkshire Water are amongst the first in the country to bring-in water restrictions, you know there is a serious lack of investment in deep water reservoir storage since they were privatised....
And how often have such been needed in the past? Hmm?.. Let's say the past 2000 years. The ideal solution was needed 40-60 years ago, and it has nothing to do with water storage. And everything with fossil fuel use.
‘England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.’ - John Burroughs 1900
@Pipi who said he argued ? 1st: Its not an argument its a quote 2nd : he is showing that a guy 200 years ago was talking about a totally opposite England reality 3rd: the problem as become inevitable you are probably the one in denial like 99% of the earth population thinking that electric car and fertilizer banning will help the cause .its too late all this should have been done 30 years ago minimum. But no your leaders are too dúmb want to turn around on a dime like its all possible without arsh and terrible consequences. Like I warn people since 5 years more or less its time to Buckle up, the ride will be bumpy. I've been warning way before that. But thats kind of the final round bell kind of warning yall should of listen a long time ago but everyone was screaming conspiracioniste. Keep buying and populating, because even your green vision is a vision of hell but your so hypnotized by all the narrative pushed down your throat you can't seem to see clear into the game . This world is better to change drastically but if it does riot will spread across like I said this world is in a checkmate situation. Everyone accusing anyone some even start to radicalize and going toward the path of regression, old ways like death sentence and all sorts of anti life anti freedom way of living . There was a guy 2000 years ago everything that would happen and here it is taking place so dont be so chocked to see it happen
And, still no notice about the complete failure by these Water Companies to fix their LEAKS. Corruption in this country is amongst the worst on this planet...
Despite being one of those countries who have the heaviest rainfalls, the UK has long been relying mainly on the nature's ability to replenish water without constructing enough water reservoirs for the hard times. So much so that it runs out of water within a brief period of few months. And it is the first one to criticize and degrade other nations based on their short comings. Very double standards and quite disappointing attitude. But I wish that UK comes out of this predicament.
They have abused and now have emptied the aquifers ..and wells .for centuries ..the water ways have been used to build wealth.. its now time for concienciously raising your standards so more people in other parts of the world do not suffer from nuclear power stations, malfunctioning thank you xx
I live in the desert in Andalusia, Spain. It rained in April for the first time in possibly six months, we only get about three weeks of rain a year. There is no hose pipe ban. How is there a ban in Wales where it rains every other day. It's almost like the UK let's all that water just run down the drain. Hope it rains soon there and here , phew it's bloody hot ! .
This doesn't mention the appalling state of the water distribution infrastructure, or how much water is lost to leakage. There needs to be an increased mandatory amount of profits these water companies need to spend to maintain resilience in the supply and infrastructure - NOW!
Profits are bad. Capitalism is bad. Tell companies to make money but when they make what you consider to be too much, take it off them. Honesty, step away from the propaganda and the brainwashing please.
Yeah they don't seem to understand, I suggested trench dredging and cleaning up river beds, so when it comes ,the rain, there will be flow, but have not had the experience..before .. Also rivers might change direction or go underground into aquafirs,....I don't think they understand solar power either?? Be a good time to learn tehe xx
They actually can’t claim that as if is actually the worst it has ever been. What they are going to argue is that all of this is natural and blame people for living in these places.
My favourite so far has been them claiming it's even hotter in Sri Lanka or the Philippines so brits shouldn't complain. I'm not even joking! These people are INSANE.
We can easily avoid this in years to come with simple & cheap changes to our cities and rural areas. Simple water capture projects, swales & pond making, mandatory permaculture will easily replenish the water table after our typically rainy autumns. No more concrete cities and allowing rainfall to runoff into the sea. The days of water waste are over.
CEOs of water companies should have their bonus linked to fixing leaks and storage instead of making money for their shareholders. The argument in favour of privatising water companies was that they would invest in pipe work and reservoirs and that is where the big increase in bills would go. After all these years we still get water shortage due to leaking pipe work and not enough reservoirs.
The vastly overpopulated UK can take no more of this insanity, our once wonderful country is systematically being destroyed financially, environmentally, culturally and ethnically. Absolutely deplorable.
According to an overweight Tory, Coffey, EU regulations prevented the construction of new reservoirs in Britain. Although how the lump ever arrived at that conclusion is way beyond me because, if there's no rain, there's nothing to fill a water butt with. . Hatred of the EU is still alive and well in the minds of these people.
@@_Ben4810 ‘sheeples’ bringing back some old hits, I’ll stop mentioning it when the gammons stop saying that they had it worse I can actually see a comment on 1976 already, seems I was right 😂
@@JamesSmith-qs4hx no, climate scientists regardless of age say that. Just because something has a low concentration doesn’t mean it has a proportionately small impact. Think about poison as an example
@@JamesSmith-qs4hx when there are higher CO2 levels, plants do grow faster but at a lower nutrient density since they don’t absorb as much nitrogen or phosphorus because the CO2 replaces it. And the rate we are increasing CO2 is destabilizing ecosystems around the world
i swear the drastic change of now vs 4 years ago is scary. The heat is horrible enough I can't imagine people at some point not being able to take a cool shower as well. Moments like this you wish this was all one bad nightmare you're in.
quite agree. and it will only get worse as there's no guarantee the next few months will be wet. we could end up basically like a third world country, forever queuing in the street for a bucket of water. that's fact.
One of the very worst things to happen in Britain has been the systematic privatization of water utilities, electric utilities, and the like. Once publicly owned, meaning owned by municipalities or counties, meaning the "People", they were corruptly sold off and it has been a fiasco. Read the comments here about lack of maintenance and water waste due to leakage, draining or wasting deep reservoirs, and other idiocies. I am so sad for what is happening worldwide this year. Climate Crisis is getting realer and realer. We must take real action, we could if the political will was there. The ideas, systems, protocols, innovations are there. Is there the political will?
If this turns out to be a long term/permanent situation, then an array of catch basins will have to be built/installed to preserve water. Greetings from a Brit residing in Arizona, USA. Living in a desert area am aware of drought situations, for sure.
Yeah, because for you, it's just the matter of it being a bit hotter. But for people with disabilities, this weather can be extremely dangerous. That's without mentioning what this heat means to the farmers across Britain and the local wildlife who are struggling in this heat.
This isn’t a normal dry summer. This is the same type of Mediterranean summer experienced in California and the Mediterranean basin. With climate change, what England can expect is a more Meditteranean type of climate happening in the near future where the summers become dry and the rains return in winter. If climate changes goes really far, England can be at threat of being put in the same situation that the Spain and California are in right now.
@@coffilover I have a disability and I am loving this nice weather but I do understand that some people may find it too hot for a few days. There is a device called an air-conditioner for that, it's a bit like the opposite of the heaters we use when it is cold
It’s not one wet summer, for southern England it’s the fourth summer in 5 years to bring a prolonged period of drought, and it’s the third summer in 4 years where temperatures have exceeded 100f. That temperature had never been recorded anywhere in the UK before 2003. It’s now a near annual event.
Since the 1980s the water companies have sold off at least 25 reservoirs, meaning we have less than in 1976, yet the population has vastly increased. Please explain.
@@carolewynn9407 droughts nothing to do with a severe lack of rain water then?? Why dont we just go back to the infrastructure we were using in the winter and spring if its infrastructure causing it now?
@@edix1673 Severe lack of water ? In the UK, hilarious. Twenty five reservoirs sold off since the 1980s , despite population increase, little to no maintenance of Victorian pipes, no cleaning of drains etc , desalination plant built never put into use.
You brits have a lot to learn about wildfires. Visited Hyde park in London yesterday, the amount of people walking around smoking and plastic/glass bottles sitting around, not litter just people using/storing them incorrectly.
@@B-A-L Your own news have reported a 500% increase in Fires in southern England. I doubt you live in the west end so Hyde park was a poor example. Maybe if I used the analogy of your local park in your council estate you would understand. Ps. I have a holiday home in SW1 and have seen plenty of fires locally.
This country is going bananas. Country that has sooo much rainfall through out a year could easily enough supply if they've made more lakes and reservoirs. It would benefit humans and the wildlife. Maybe Britain would finally have more biodiversity and go up from the bottom of "Most nature depleted European country'' list.
I live on the edge of a small town, within 200 metres of my house I’ve seen foxes, badgers, red kite , hedgehogs, peregrine falcon, buzzard, multiple owls, multiple bats, within 3 miles, deer, otters, wild boar, multiple hawks, 9 miles, add beaver. There’s much more wildlife now than there was 40 years ago.
It causes environmental damage and uses a large amount of energy that will most probably come from fossil fuels which will only accelerate the problem.
When parts of the UK declare draught you know global warming has become an extremely serious problem on the planet. Governments are failing our beautiful home :(
@Follow the howl At least 25 were sold for building on, that was all about profit for the share holders, so despite the growth in population, we have less reservoirs than 1976. The govt. does not determine maintainence, each water company sets their own targets.
When the ground becomes parched like that when it rains it can’t absorb the water so it runs off causing flash flooding. When it starts raining again there will be flooding especially if there are heavy thunderstorms.
Ah, Yes. Problems. The amount of negative situations that the world faces every single day is unfathomable. Whether you're locked out of your house, or the entire village that you live in is destroyed, both these scenarios have one thing in common. There Problems. And you, yes see you I see you over there sitting on your chair eating microwave ramen being like,”It’S nOt My PrObLeM.” and you may be right. Well, As long as you didn’t cause the problem. But even if you didn’t cause the problem, YOU SHOULD STILL TRY AND HELP TO FIX IT!
Complete overreaction by the public - we are not in the same situation as 1976, despite over 10 million more people. We now have the ability to move water more than ever before. They’re not talking about turning off the taps - as happened in ‘76. Just don’t waste water doing unnecessary things like using a hosepipe to wash your car or fill your swimming pool. The biggest threat is for agriculture due to the long dry spell and likelihood of flash flooding when it rains next week.
but people use way more water than in 1976 also England got bigger pouluation and farms are way bigger than before so England use more than 5x the water than they use in 1976 their are ways to get water but if the drought persist for a couple of months then England is fucked
Wouldn't be so bad IF the water companies around the UK at times didn't lose (through leaks and inefficient pipework) up to 30% of the water they collect between from where they get their supplies to providing consumers.... Anglian water have been a consistant bad player in this game for many years... 😒
Severn Trent serves us and luckily no hosepipe ban yet. They've sent out texts asking us to be careful with water usage but they don't see any water shortages occurring at the moment. I don't see how forecasters can say it will be warm for the next 3 months though, weather can't be predicted that far ahead with any sort of accuracy.
Got to laugh at the media.. heatwave this and that. Where i live in England we've probably had 7 nice days all summer. Its been a bit crap tbh. Dull cloudy days with rain typical summer for us. But that wont catch the media because we live outside london 🙄
I live in Newcastle and youre talking absolute sh*t. Do you live under a rock?? Can you even define a heatwave?? You deny there has been one, what is the definition of a heatwave?
This is my kids account since I can't comment on my own account but my eldest kid is vulnerable and this heat during the last few months is bad for my eldest kid since she could go hospital in one of the heatwaves this year I'm not letting my eldest kid go to school for the last few months since it is bad for her so she's homeschooled now until winter
If it wasn't for climate change we'd still be in the ice age. I like July (and August) to be hot and dry personally, before woke was invented we used to call it summer
@@vybz987 Sorry, i'll try and put it simpler for you. We have 4 seasons. Summer is hot, Winter is cold, Spring & Autumn are transitions between the two. The fact that we have some hot and dry weather in Summer isn't really news - it's quite normal and nothing to worry about. Hope this helps.
Africa has had droughts since forever. There was a Blue Peter appeal for Biafra in the 1970's for which I collected and helped. But it turns out that droughts have been happening there since time immemorial and to add to the woes the population in the past 50 years has exploded. There is the same amount of water in the world as there was then. Global drought is an impossibility.
This makes me kind of nervous about this coming summer, because if it's so hot that places in Europe are catching fire, what's going to be happening here in South Africa 😂😂😂. Yoh.
Get prepared, resource and pay for FireFighters , well and train some more..., get the helicopters that drop water bombs.. have look outs in vulnerable places, make sure the place is monitored by satalites, infered. Use drones to find people and animals, set up rescue and burn units for people and animals, Aloe vera and cold water, best first line of recovery ,for simple burns ..xx go underground it's coolerxxx
Rubbish, there's no drought there was almost constant rain throughout winter this year as well as spring. Furthermore its raining now, 3 days later. So where is your drought now?
I remember 1959.1975 ,1976, great summers later freezing cold ,plenty of rain lol 😆 I'm sure it's going to happen again I'm away to buy a canoe or two.
Enjoy the sunshine folks, this is what we call summer, not a catastrophe, just the Earth's natural rotational change of its axis that's, why the weather has changed. And in time the Earth will come back around on its original axis witch will be cooler weather for some time
No. This is the same type of summer seen in the Mediterranean region. That is due to warming of the atmosphere pushing the high pressure cells farther north than they are suppose to be. The tilt of the earth’s axis is not significant enough to have caused this and would affect climate anomalies around the world like California’s and Australia’s drought completely differently.
No, milankovitch cycles are not responsible for these changes. The change is occurring way too quickly for that and those cycles should be driving cooling in the next 1000 years without the input of fossil fuels but we’re overriding the natural variation
as at the beginning of the covid when it was still in china, but in europe everyone thought it could not arrive. you still haven't understood how serious THE QUESTION is
Media in UAE is broadcasting how successful its cloud seeding energy has been in creating rain in Dubai- If the UK was not so concerned about cresting climate fear they could buy back the technology they sold to UAE.
Are those the parts that are owed, run and profited by French and German companies BBC? Good of the British people to subsidise their excellent infrastructure and reasonable prices back in their home countries don't you think.
Dry and sunny in South Wales (Barry Island), but plenty of cold and rain to spare in New South Wales (Aust). Not so bad on the East Coast but inland, rain is predicted Saturday (13/8) to Tuesday (16/8). And snow Sunday and Tuesday at Barrington Tops National Park in the NSW North East sub-tropical rain forests (yes, you read those last three words correctly; it's 1565 metres elevation). And yet a third La Nina is predicted 50% likely in Spring (Sept-Nov) as well as a negative Indian Ocean Dipole, both of which bring more rain to Central and Eastern Australia.
All the more reason to stop subsidizing farmers ripping out hedges. Mandate the planting of hedges to encourage a more moist microclimate. In wide open parklands too.
Honestly I hate being English,all the media do is bloody banging on how everything is dangerous,ffs we go on holiday to red hot places all over world and love it and they cope but we have a week and all hell brakes loose, and then winter will come and then back to moaning that we can't cope , meanwhile places like Sweden seem to be fine ,,,
A country who lectures others on their shortcomings , natural resources and environment etc is suffering from drought! Irony huh.. despite receiving heavy rainfall they didn't create enough dams, artificial lakes or reservoirs?
Listen, Man United might not thank me but get the contract out, put it on the table. Let him sign it, let him write whatever numbers he wants to put on there, given what he's done since he's come in. TEN HAG'S (Ole 4.0) at the wheel, man. He's doing it. He's doing his thing. MAN UNITED ARE BACK!!!!!
The faster the train goes, the harder it is to stop. In the last 20 years, global food production has become completely reliant on the use of organophosphates and pesticides; that the supply of herbicides and associated chemicals should suddenly become unavailable: worldwide food productivity would be reduced by as much as 30-50% in the space of a few short months. The long game: given productivity would be further reduced by 30-50% if artificial fertilizers and nitrogen were also taken out of the mix; like a runaway train rapidly gaining momentum down a hill: Putin and the gigantic, autocratic elephant in the room (China) are just getting started. Of runaway trains, soil fertility, and chemical withdrawals: Soil Organic Matter (SOM) is present and tested in the form of carbons that took from the beginning of time to get to where they are. That push should come to shove, and farmers would quickly revert to the age old practice of successive cultivation passes in order to suppress weed competition in their crops, lies an unequivocal, self perpetuating, never ending conundrum; the more the world's remaining soil's are oxygenated and oxidized into CO2 by cultivation, and soil fertility levels continue to drop: the greater the reliance on artificial inputs. This is not rocket science: that anyone who fails to plan, plans to fail, and it's all over bar the shouting insofar as agriculture is concerned; the sooner you pick up sticks and do something about it: the better your chances of survival. As surely as god made little green apples: while a full-scale, well-deserved global nuclear holocaust and an inevitable nuclear winter in the northern hemisphere will surely occur at any moment; with atmospheric carbon levels doubling, and doubling again: it is the southern hemisphere which will be required to absorb 3-400 million fleeing souls from one moment to the next. That 70-80% of those refugees will perish in the first couple of months, of the ensuing anarchy and chaos of the 30 year mini ice age that definitively occurs in mid March 2034: 99% of the 1% who somehow managed to survive the first two nights of the big freeze by digging in, will go on to perish in the first 18 months. Armed with bows and arrows, and set in outback Western Australia in 2093: 'Ground Zero, and the Children of Kakadu' (gumroad) follows the trials and tribulations of a disparate community of 1200 tech-savvy Home Central inhabitants who suddenly find themselves under attack by an entire invading army of blood thirsty, machine gun toting, cannibalistic 'outlanders' with nefarious, somewhat 'other worldly' intentions.
the longest drought in uk was in 1893 at mile end it lasted 73 days,In Australia we have droughts that last years,so no need for panic over there the rain will be back soon.You should also not panic over a few hot days it is just a weather event.
As an Australian, it's quite surreal seeing images of Britain looking as dry as Australia.
As an Australian, this is nothing.
Earlier post. No where near as a dry as Australia.......
Meanwhile England sent citizens over to Australia.
A lot less water, and a lot worse in terms of droughts and dry, barren wasteland.
Hardly anything in comparison to our summers lol.
Quite funny really, watching at first france, and now the UK suffer.
Learn to deal with the elements idiots.
Defund the BBC its propaganda and were literally made to pay for our own brainwashing its definetly satanic.
Welcome to the new world now climate change has completely settled in. This will be World war 3 we expected but not between nations but humanity against failing to FIX our mistakes and correct the damage we have done to earth.
Yeah, it's getting almost as hot, too. My pets are Australian native and they hate how hot it is. I have to take them outside for walks now to cool them down, it's not optional. My monitor lizard that's from the arid outback can't stand it and he's flailing around trying to dig his way out of the enclosure vents after I've already turned off the heating lights and mats.
It's hell watching them and being helpless because I'm doing everything I can for them already. My flat traps heat and releases it later in the day so by 8PM we're all suffering. One of my animals even died last year from the heat and it didn't get this hot. Fingers crossed my frog, scorpion, geckos and pythons make it through this year. Even the bearded dragons are struggling.
And then there's next year if things keep getting gradually worse like they have been for the past four years. Might just have to keep everything in my storage cupboard outside.
@@sirbaconbutties7071 Thanks for the laugh, I needed that! 🤣
When Welsh Water & Yorkshire Water are amongst the first in the country to bring-in water restrictions, you know there is a serious lack of investment in deep water reservoir storage since they were privatised....
|And no revenue for fixing leaks...
And how often have such been needed in the past? Hmm?.. Let's say the past 2000 years.
The ideal solution was needed 40-60 years ago, and it has nothing to do with water storage. And everything with fossil fuel use.
I’d better go out a bulk buy some ‘Peckham Spring’ then
Raining next week in kent
@@bbcisaids6727 And.
‘England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.’ - John Burroughs 1900
@Pipi who said he argued ?
1st: Its not an argument its a quote
2nd : he is showing that a guy 200 years ago was talking about a totally opposite England reality
3rd: the problem as become inevitable you are probably the one in denial like 99% of the earth population thinking that electric car and fertilizer banning will help the cause .its too late all this should have been done 30 years ago minimum. But no your leaders are too dúmb want to turn around on a dime like its all possible without arsh and terrible consequences.
Like I warn people since 5 years more or less its time to Buckle up, the ride will be bumpy.
I've been warning way before that. But thats kind of the final round bell kind of warning yall should of listen a long time ago but everyone was screaming conspiracioniste.
Keep buying and populating, because even your green vision is a vision of hell but your so hypnotized by all the narrative pushed down your throat you can't seem to see clear into the game .
This world is better to change drastically but if it does riot will spread across like I said this world is in a checkmate situation. Everyone accusing anyone some even start to radicalize and going toward the path of regression, old ways like death sentence and all sorts of anti life anti freedom way of living .
There was a guy 2000 years ago everything that would happen and here it is taking place so dont be so chocked to see it happen
@Pipi who are you talking to
@Pipi I think OP actually says big changes are here since the quote is from 1900 😀
@@theGrymer Yes 20 million foreigners.
@Pipi there is no problem you brainwashed globalist serf, its rainig and thunderstorms next week aross uk, you believe msm and klaus schwab
And, still no notice about the complete failure by these Water Companies to fix their LEAKS.
Corruption in this country is amongst the worst on this planet...
India is competing hard
While leaks is a problem, it's by far not the only problem...🙄
Not so much corruption, more lack of accountability
James aren’t those just different sides of the same coin? Corruption leads to lack of accountability imo
People! Please set out water for wild animals!
Despite being one of those countries who have the heaviest rainfalls, the UK has long been relying mainly on the nature's ability to replenish water without constructing enough water reservoirs for the hard times. So much so that it runs out of water within a brief period of few months. And it is the first one to criticize and degrade other nations based on their short comings. Very double standards and quite disappointing attitude. But I wish that UK comes out of this predicament.
They have abused and now have emptied the aquifers ..and wells .for centuries ..the water ways have been used to build wealth.. its now time for concienciously raising your standards so more people in other parts of the world do not suffer from nuclear power stations, malfunctioning thank you xx
The UK isn't a country. Is a sovereign nation with 4 country's in it.
@@McYeroc NOT For long, haha sovereignty , *united kingdom* tehe
London is drier than most of Europe
I live in the desert in Andalusia, Spain. It rained in April for the first time in possibly six months, we only get about three weeks of rain a year. There is no hose pipe ban. How is there a ban in Wales where it rains every other day. It's almost like the UK let's all that water just run down the drain. Hope it rains soon there and here , phew it's bloody hot ! .
Go underground, it's cooler, or maybe a nice cave xxx ☮️💜🙄😓💜💙
@@darthvader1793 haha soon to be called a * weather event* tehe
Uk doesn't own its water .
Us Californians know this all too well 😔 Praying for UK 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
Everyday more people are entering the Country and need WATER.
This doesn't mention the appalling state of the water distribution infrastructure, or how much water is lost to leakage. There needs to be an increased mandatory amount of profits these water companies need to spend to maintain resilience in the supply and infrastructure - NOW!
what would you expect from a BBC report pal?
Profits are bad. Capitalism is bad. Tell companies to make money but when they make what you consider to be too much, take it off them. Honesty, step away from the propaganda and the brainwashing please.
@@nicolabryan6102 I wouldn't call The Spectator anti-capitalist.
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I would worry about brain leakage, seems to me, something's missing xxx in the problem solving dept.. oh there isn't one, oh that makes sense tehe xx
when it rains there'll be run off because of soil capping, which might increase the risk of flooding
Yeah they don't seem to understand, I suggested trench dredging and cleaning up river beds, so when it comes ,the rain, there will be flow, but have not had the experience..before .. Also rivers might change direction or go underground into aquafirs,....I don't think they understand solar power either?? Be a good time to learn tehe xx
Perhaps they can clean the completely blocked drains, so the rain can have somewhere to go.
@@chrissyduggan3347
I ain't saying you are
But is you a #conspirist or whatever
They get called
But anyway you has a new subscription added
the worse it gets the more the knuckle heads will ignore it and say it was way worse in 76 ... we doomed for sure .
They actually can’t claim that as if is actually the worst it has ever been. What they are going to argue is that all of this is natural and blame people for living in these places.
My favourite so far has been them claiming it's even hotter in Sri Lanka or the Philippines so brits shouldn't complain. I'm not even joking! These people are INSANE.
@@nataliekhanyola5669 i know its actually inane and you just get that feeling they will never change minds out of pure stubborness.
Good old British summer 😂
We can easily avoid this in years to come with simple & cheap changes to our cities and rural areas. Simple water capture projects, swales & pond making, mandatory permaculture will easily replenish the water table after our typically rainy autumns. No more concrete cities and allowing rainfall to runoff into the sea. The days of water waste are over.
rainwater globally is polluted with micro plastics and pfas, it is not that simple
C, not taking a shower and not washing dishes. Do not flush the toilet either....they use too much water in one flush.
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The media wont tell you that it is the ridiculous house building that is a main contributing factor to this so called drought.
C proposed real solutions, you on the other hand are being childish.
Use as much water as you like. Balls to the water companies for selling off too many reservoirs.
My pools back up 5000 litres in it 😁
CEOs of water companies should have their bonus linked to fixing leaks and storage instead of making money for their shareholders. The argument in favour of privatising water companies was that they would invest in pipe work and reservoirs and that is where the big increase in bills would go. After all these years we still get water shortage due to leaking pipe work and not enough reservoirs.
The vastly overpopulated UK can take no more of this insanity, our once wonderful country is systematically being destroyed financially, environmentally, culturally and ethnically. Absolutely deplorable.
Southern Spain hasn't had rain since March and with temps of up to 44 Degrees but we still have water because we have reservoirs and dams !.
According to an overweight Tory, Coffey, EU regulations prevented the construction of new reservoirs in Britain.
Although how the lump ever arrived at that conclusion is way beyond me because, if there's no rain, there's nothing to fill a water butt with.
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Hatred of the EU is still alive and well in the minds of these people.
Gammons will say that ‘1976 was hotter’
& sheeples will keep on mentioning 1976 again & again & again..........💤💤💤💤💤💤
@@_Ben4810 ‘sheeples’ bringing back some old hits, I’ll stop mentioning it when the gammons stop saying that they had it worse
I can actually see a comment on 1976 already, seems I was right 😂
Brexiteers won. Hows it feel?
@@JamesSmith-qs4hx no, climate scientists regardless of age say that. Just because something has a low concentration doesn’t mean it has a proportionately small impact. Think about poison as an example
@@JamesSmith-qs4hx when there are higher CO2 levels, plants do grow faster but at a lower nutrient density since they don’t absorb as much nitrogen or phosphorus because the CO2 replaces it. And the rate we are increasing CO2 is destabilizing ecosystems around the world
i swear the drastic change of now vs 4 years ago is scary. The heat is horrible enough I can't imagine people at some point not being able to take a cool shower as well. Moments like this you wish this was all one bad nightmare you're in.
quite agree. and it will only get worse as there's no guarantee the next few months will be wet. we could end up basically like a third world country, forever queuing in the street for a bucket of water. that's fact.
One of the very worst things to happen in Britain has been the systematic privatization of water utilities, electric utilities, and the like. Once publicly owned, meaning owned by municipalities or counties, meaning the "People", they were corruptly sold off and it has been a fiasco. Read the comments here about lack of maintenance and water waste due to leakage, draining or wasting deep reservoirs, and other idiocies. I am so sad for what is happening worldwide this year. Climate Crisis is getting realer and realer. We must take real action, we could if the political will was there. The ideas, systems, protocols, innovations are there. Is there the political will?
Nobody cares. *sips beer*
If this turns out to be a long term/permanent situation, then an array of catch basins will have to be built/installed to preserve water. Greetings from a Brit residing in Arizona, USA. Living in a desert area am aware of drought situations, for sure.
Don't pay your water bill. Water companies are not allowed to cut your supply off, whatever ever you owe. Stand up to the fat cats
@Follow the howl Let them take you to court, it will cost them more than it will cost you. Fuck them.
Will Africa be holding a Water Aid concert for the poor gardeners of England?
After 20+ years of wet summers, we have 1 dry summer and everyone looses their minds.
Rivers run dry heat breaking records. Greenland and Antarctica melting. Wake up and don't be so arrogant.
Yeah, because for you, it's just the matter of it being a bit hotter. But for people with disabilities, this weather can be extremely dangerous. That's without mentioning what this heat means to the farmers across Britain and the local wildlife who are struggling in this heat.
This isn’t a normal dry summer. This is the same type of Mediterranean summer experienced in California and the Mediterranean basin. With climate change, what England can expect is a more Meditteranean type of climate happening in the near future where the summers become dry and the rains return in winter. If climate changes goes really far, England can be at threat of being put in the same situation that the Spain and California are in right now.
@@coffilover I have a disability and I am loving this nice weather but I do understand that some people may find it too hot for a few days. There is a device called an air-conditioner for that, it's a bit like the opposite of the heaters we use when it is cold
It’s not one wet summer, for southern England it’s the fourth summer in 5 years to bring a prolonged period of drought, and it’s the third summer in 4 years where temperatures have exceeded 100f. That temperature had never been recorded anywhere in the UK before 2003. It’s now a near annual event.
Wow - just mind-blowing!
In parts of the UK last week it chucked it down in bridlington.
How long for, 1 minute??
Since the 1980s the water companies have sold off at least 25 reservoirs, meaning we have less than in 1976, yet the population has vastly increased. Please explain.
Hello dear how are you doing?
@@diegojwagner1847 Fine thank you, and you ?
@@carolewynn9407 I’m doing pretty good
How was your night dear?
So what, most of us just accept it's weather and it changes, it will probably rain all next summer, end of !
Found the dumbass in the comments.
Hope it stays warm . Not bothered about what the news says. British news is not trust worthy. My daffodils are doing fine in this lovely hot weather.
Droughts in UK..thats the last thing I could have imagined to happened
@Jake Nothing new? When was the last 40c day in britain before ths year?
There are only droughts because we have poor maintenance of pipes etc , reservoirs have been sold, and the water companies want profits.
@@carolewynn9407 droughts nothing to do with a severe lack of rain water then??
Why dont we just go back to the infrastructure we were using in the winter and spring if its infrastructure causing it now?
@@edix1673 Severe lack of water ? In the UK, hilarious. Twenty five reservoirs sold off since the 1980s , despite population increase, little to no maintenance of Victorian pipes, no cleaning of drains etc , desalination plant built never put into use.
@@carolewynn9407 you didn't answer my question. Why didnt we have a lack of water in the spring/winter?
Oh God please save my UK🙏🙏please have mercy on the UK. Sending you my love🇿🇲🇿🇲
Dont worry Britons. Im visiting for a few days soon. Its ALWAYS raining when im over visiting you so get those sugar beets ready.
Thanks mate
You brits have a lot to learn about wildfires. Visited Hyde park in London yesterday, the amount of people walking around smoking and plastic/glass bottles sitting around, not litter just people using/storing them incorrectly.
How many wildfires did you see in Hyde Park then?
@@B-A-L Your own news have reported a 500% increase in Fires in southern England. I doubt you live in the west end so Hyde park was a poor example. Maybe if I used the analogy of your local park in your council estate you would understand. Ps. I have a holiday home in SW1 and have seen plenty of fires locally.
Stop panicking! It will rain just like it always does in the UK 🙄
omg never would have thought this would happen to the UK
1976
It's happened before.. and long before the new religion got started...
No drought about it!
This country is going bananas. Country that has sooo much rainfall through out a year could easily enough supply if they've made more lakes and reservoirs. It would benefit humans and the wildlife. Maybe Britain would finally have more biodiversity and go up from the bottom of "Most nature depleted European country'' list.
Oop finally someone said it all , thanks for your comment,I would like to know you more,I hope you don't mind
Which villages and valleys would you flood for them though?
@@pipoo1 Not his property, because he would whine.
I live on the edge of a small town, within 200 metres of my house I’ve seen foxes, badgers, red kite , hedgehogs, peregrine falcon, buzzard, multiple owls, multiple bats, within 3 miles, deer, otters, wild boar, multiple hawks, 9 miles, add beaver. There’s much more wildlife now than there was 40 years ago.
won't happen when our government is sh*t and so are the water companies.
Immediate desalination of seawater and channelling of this is required worldwide.
It causes environmental damage and uses a large amount of energy that will most probably come from fossil fuels which will only accelerate the problem.
When parts of the UK declare draught you know global warming has become an extremely serious problem on the planet. Governments are failing our beautiful home :(
Nothing to do with the failings of the water companies then ?
@Follow the howl But they control the lack of storage and reservoirs, poor maintenance of pipes and cleaning of drains.
@Follow the howl At least 25 were sold for building on, that was all about profit for the share holders, so despite the growth in population, we have less reservoirs than 1976. The govt. does not determine maintainence, each water company sets their own targets.
When the ground becomes parched like that when it rains it can’t absorb the water so it runs off causing flash flooding. When it starts raining again there will be flooding especially if there are heavy thunderstorms.
No 💩Sherlock.
Good. I look forward to watching the news on how peoples homes are flooded.
@@shroudedgrove4679 Need to keep my distance from you, don't want to cut myself.
There are thunder storms coming. Lol. Good luck.
Big deal. I experienced several "droughts" in my childhood in the UK. This is nothing new... Drop the alarmism... Winter is coming...
Ah, Yes. Problems. The amount of negative situations that the world faces every single day is unfathomable. Whether you're locked out of your house, or the entire village that you live in is destroyed, both these scenarios have one thing in common. There Problems. And you, yes see you I see you over there sitting on your chair eating microwave ramen being like,”It’S nOt My PrObLeM.” and you may be right. Well, As long as you didn’t cause the problem. But even if you didn’t cause the problem, YOU SHOULD STILL TRY AND HELP TO FIX IT!
@Jake good point
Complete overreaction by the public - we are not in the same situation as 1976, despite over 10 million more people. We now have the ability to move water more than ever before. They’re not talking about turning off the taps - as happened in ‘76. Just don’t waste water doing unnecessary things like using a hosepipe to wash your car or fill your swimming pool. The biggest threat is for agriculture due to the long dry spell and likelihood of flash flooding when it rains next week.
but people use way more water than in 1976 also England got bigger pouluation and farms are way bigger than before so England use more than 5x the water than they use in 1976 their are ways to get water but if the drought persist for a couple of months then England is fucked
@@kzuv7615 . Average consumption per person was 304 litres per day in 1976, now it’s about 150 litres.
Wow. You should be prime minister
It's not the public it's the government and nobody actually cares people are just trying to survive at the moment.
Wouldn't be so bad IF the water companies around the UK at times didn't lose (through leaks and inefficient pipework) up to 30% of the water they collect between from where they get their supplies to providing consumers.... Anglian water have been a consistant bad player in this game for many years... 😒
Wow is this new no its happens all the time 1976 1958 1938 1931 and so on
Food shortage is next. Just prepare of the impact.
Dont worry everyone, if we dont have rain soon I'll go camping, it will chuck it down for sure.
That always happens.
I've been ridiculed for saying it but I will keep saying it; population growth is a significant factor to these problems.
Tell that to China because, with their failed 1 child policy they are now facing economic ruin.
Building few dams and plants around our shore's turning salty water into fresh drinking water.
I pray to God that it will be a repeat weather in summer 2023. I don't care if the heat is unbearable. I will enjoy it.
Yeah let's all nearly die because Javed loves the sun, there's better sun back in the East
Severn Trent serves us and luckily no hosepipe ban yet. They've sent out texts asking us to be careful with water usage but they don't see any water shortages occurring at the moment. I don't see how forecasters can say it will be warm for the next 3 months though, weather can't be predicted that far ahead with any sort of accuracy.
Warms my heart.
The sun never sets on the English empire.
Unfortunately, I'm melting over here
@@teaveins1466 😂
Indeed, GSTK.
What happened to all the punkha wallahs.
@@peterrhodes5663 punkha wallahs?
Got to laugh at the media.. heatwave this and that. Where i live in England we've probably had 7 nice days all summer. Its been a bit crap tbh. Dull cloudy days with rain typical summer for us. But that wont catch the media because we live outside london 🙄
I live in Newcastle and youre talking absolute sh*t. Do you live under a rock??
Can you even define a heatwave?? You deny there has been one, what is the definition of a heatwave?
Plenty of water and gas in the ground .... start drilling
What next when that runs out?
@@SS-yj2le god your so pathetic groundwater dosent run out
S Wales has drought!
Too many leeks
This is my kids account since I can't comment on my own account but my eldest kid is vulnerable and this heat during the last few months is bad for my eldest kid since she could go hospital in one of the heatwaves this year I'm not letting my eldest kid go to school for the last few months since it is bad for her so she's homeschooled now until winter
Thank you so much for telling everyone. I will send my prayers to your eldest kid, just as soon as I become Christian, which will be never.
brits are always complaining about the rain
and then when its hot....
@@clutchedsanity8790 yes because we're perfect and like our conditions perfect :)
And when its Icy or snowy
@@emmachurchman1527 rarely snows and it being iccy is a legit thing to moan about
This is evidence of climate change. Driest july since 1935 and the hottest temperature ever
If it wasn't for climate change we'd still be in the ice age. I like July (and August) to be hot and dry personally, before woke was invented we used to call it summer
@@matty_mcmattface huh?
@@vybz987 Summer. It lies between Spring & Autumn.
@@matty_mcmattface yes. And?
@@vybz987 Sorry, i'll try and put it simpler for you. We have 4 seasons. Summer is hot, Winter is cold, Spring & Autumn are transitions between the two. The fact that we have some hot and dry weather in Summer isn't really news - it's quite normal and nothing to worry about. Hope this helps.
It's a global drought. It's catching up to Europe now...in Africa we are in Year 2.
Africa has had droughts since forever. There was a Blue Peter appeal for Biafra in the 1970's for which I collected and helped. But it turns out that droughts have been happening there since time immemorial and to add to the woes the population in the past 50 years has exploded. There is the same amount of water in the world as there was then. Global drought is an impossibility.
I’d better go out a bulk buy some ‘Peckham Spring’ then
...never a truer word said in jest .....
Luvly Jubbly, off you go then, Rodders...
And of course to make Britain more food independent we need more golf courses...
This makes me kind of nervous about this coming summer, because if it's so hot that places in Europe are catching fire, what's going to be happening here in South Africa 😂😂😂. Yoh.
Get prepared, resource and pay for FireFighters , well and train some more..., get the helicopters that drop water bombs.. have look outs in vulnerable places, make sure the place is monitored by satalites, infered. Use drones to find people and animals, set up rescue and burn units for people and animals, Aloe vera and cold water, best first line of recovery ,for simple burns ..xx go underground it's coolerxxx
We have millions of acres we could be using for wetlands and reservoirs. Massively under invested. We cry when we have solutions.
But...... that would just be socialisism, and knuckledraggers cry whenever they hear such a scary word!
Rubbish, there's no drought there was almost constant rain throughout winter this year as well as spring. Furthermore its raining now, 3 days later. So where is your drought now?
Bottled water industries need to be regulated. Natural water tables are often being depleted . Effecting eco systems and farming industries.
That’s a bit controversial for the Beeb isn’t it?
Have you checked with Dorries?
“drought declared… stricter measures… impacts on infrastructure”
Has anyone any idea what this means???
I have nothing to say to you people. Save yourself if you can .
Blame the the water companies, not this normal weather, and grow up.
Most people don't realise that it be like it is but it do.....
Which changes what exactly?
On the other hand, governments around the world is failing us.
I remember 1959.1975 ,1976, great summers later freezing cold ,plenty of rain lol 😆 I'm sure it's going to happen again I'm away to buy a canoe or two.
Me too. I remember it well..
The training of soldiers and officers of the new Irish Republican Army is already underway in Russia.
Why don't they use a weather machine (cloud seeding)? ...Too expensive?....Just cut PM Boris Johnson's salary 🤣🤣
Enjoy the sunshine folks, this is what we call summer, not a catastrophe, just the Earth's natural rotational change of its axis that's, why the weather has changed.
And in time the Earth will come back around on its original axis witch will be cooler weather for some time
No. This is the same type of summer seen in the Mediterranean region. That is due to warming of the atmosphere pushing the high pressure cells farther north than they are suppose to be. The tilt of the earth’s axis is not significant enough to have caused this and would affect climate anomalies around the world like California’s and Australia’s drought completely differently.
No, milankovitch cycles are not responsible for these changes. The change is occurring way too quickly for that and those cycles should be driving cooling in the next 1000 years without the input of fossil fuels but we’re overriding the natural variation
That’s a headline I never thought I’d see for the uk, we are known for our rain
We are used to it in Australia, the EU and the UK need to look what Australia and the US does
The EU has had multiple droughts before with it having a similar climate to the American west-coast.
Cloud seeding geoenginering weather modifications are being withheld 😑
You can't seed clouds that aren't there.........
as at the beginning of the covid when it was still in china, but in europe everyone thought it could not arrive. you still haven't understood how serious THE QUESTION is
In a few decades people will go on vacations to cooler places in order to escape heatwaves not to 'Feel warm' and get a suntan.
Sad thing is next week’s thundery showers won’t 100% help but will be a start to get the ground wet again.
Will just create more fires those thundery showers
it won't be enough - period.
Don't drink Coca-Cola
It's called summer. It's now autumn and possing down.
Media in UAE is broadcasting how successful its cloud seeding energy has been in creating rain in Dubai- If the UK was not so concerned about cresting climate fear they could buy back the technology they sold to UAE.
Only works f there are clouds 🤷♀️
@@AngelaH2222 that is inaccurate- one should research the multi of technologies
"It's a win-win", said one total idiot.
Okay, heatstroke.
Are those the parts that are owed, run and profited by French and German companies BBC? Good of the British people to subsidise their excellent infrastructure and reasonable prices back in their home countries don't you think.
Dry and sunny in South Wales (Barry Island), but plenty of cold and rain to spare in New South Wales (Aust). Not so bad on the East Coast but inland, rain is predicted Saturday (13/8) to Tuesday (16/8). And snow Sunday and Tuesday at Barrington Tops National Park in the NSW North East sub-tropical rain forests (yes, you read those last three words correctly; it's 1565 metres elevation).
And yet a third La Nina is predicted 50% likely in Spring (Sept-Nov) as well as a negative Indian Ocean Dipole, both of which bring more rain to Central and Eastern Australia.
All the more reason to stop subsidizing farmers ripping out hedges.
Mandate the planting of hedges to encourage a more moist microclimate.
In wide open parklands too.
Honestly I hate being English,all the media do is bloody banging on how everything is dangerous,ffs we go on holiday to red hot places all over world and love it and they cope but we have a week and all hell brakes loose, and then winter will come and then back to moaning that we can't cope , meanwhile places like Sweden seem to be fine ,,,
If they want rain they know what they need to do.
A country who lectures others on their shortcomings , natural resources and environment etc is suffering from drought! Irony huh.. despite receiving heavy rainfall they didn't create enough dams, artificial lakes or reservoirs?
Certainly sounds like it's not going to be a good year for crop circles.
Meanwhile, Seoul is drowning in non-stop torrential downpour for days.
Different weather systems. South Korea has monsoonal moisture influence while the UK gets rain from systems that produce rain in colder climates.
Listen, Man United might not thank me but get the contract out, put it on the table. Let him sign it, let him write whatever numbers he wants to put on there, given what he's done since he's come in. TEN HAG'S (Ole 4.0) at the wheel, man. He's doing it. He's doing his thing. MAN UNITED ARE BACK!!!!!
What's man united?
What have you been drinking, AND where can I get some.
The faster the train goes, the harder it is to stop. In the last 20 years, global food production has become completely reliant on the use of organophosphates and pesticides; that the supply of herbicides and associated chemicals should suddenly become unavailable: worldwide food productivity would be reduced by as much as 30-50% in the space of a few short months.
The long game: given productivity would be further reduced by 30-50% if artificial fertilizers and nitrogen were also taken out of the mix; like a runaway train rapidly gaining momentum down a hill: Putin and the gigantic, autocratic elephant in the room (China) are just getting started.
Of runaway trains, soil fertility, and chemical withdrawals: Soil Organic Matter (SOM) is present and tested in the form of carbons that took from the beginning of time to get to where they are. That push should come to shove, and farmers would quickly revert to the age old practice of successive cultivation passes in order to suppress weed competition in their crops, lies an unequivocal, self perpetuating, never ending conundrum; the more the world's remaining soil's are oxygenated and oxidized into CO2 by cultivation, and soil fertility levels continue to drop: the greater the reliance on artificial inputs.
This is not rocket science: that anyone who fails to plan, plans to fail, and it's all over bar the shouting insofar as agriculture is concerned; the sooner you pick up sticks and do something about it: the better your chances of survival.
As surely as god made little green apples: while a full-scale, well-deserved global nuclear holocaust and an inevitable nuclear winter in the northern hemisphere will surely occur at any moment; with atmospheric carbon levels doubling, and doubling again: it is the southern hemisphere which will be required to absorb 3-400 million fleeing souls from one moment to the next. That 70-80% of those refugees will perish in the first couple of months, of the ensuing anarchy and chaos of the 30 year mini ice age that definitively occurs in mid March 2034: 99% of the 1% who somehow managed to survive the first two nights of the big freeze by digging in, will go on to perish in the first 18 months.
Armed with bows and arrows, and set in outback Western Australia in 2093: 'Ground Zero, and the Children of Kakadu' (gumroad) follows the trials and tribulations of a disparate community of 1200 tech-savvy Home Central inhabitants who suddenly find themselves under attack by an entire invading army of blood thirsty, machine gun toting, cannibalistic 'outlanders' with nefarious, somewhat 'other worldly' intentions.
the longest drought in uk was in 1893 at mile end it lasted 73 days,In Australia we have droughts that last years,so no need for panic over there the rain will be back soon.You should also not panic over a few hot days it is just a weather event.
You're delusional.
*0.43 Cricket ground - so true everywhere*